Extinct Skis and Gear

[ZomblibulaX]

Girardelli could’ve wooped your ass with his feet stuffed into a couple of stale baguettes.

+2 on first-gen gotamas, before they took the metal out. Especially when you look at what else was available at the time (like pocket rockets), those were revolutionary. And threw a horrific rooster tail to blind anyone behind you.

Someone needs to start a retro-grouch ski company that only makes exact copies of great, now defunct ski designs.

Someone raid the Stockli factory for old DP and SS Pro molds and we’re well on our way.

[Core Shot]

Head 720

#BeforeMyTime
Not that old. Yet.

[Hughwindlip]

The fucking 196 4frnt renegade #RIP

+1

Have my hands on a heavier 186 and new age 30m 191

Some 196s in edmonchuk and cowtown if anyone wants to dabble . . .

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-ski/edmonton...des/1539014370

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-ski/calgary/...ade/1535386598

I wish I was man enough to put these to proper use.




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[XXX-er]

i had some grey 90's then i got a real deal on the 92's so i put pwraps in them which were just coming out

they skied pretty well or so I thot

i had a level 3 ski instructor GF who seen those 92's and said to me

so do you like them greek ski boots ?

[L82thegate]

And...Bobby Burns "The Ski". I was more a K2 winter heat & Century honeycomb cores guy at the time. Remember Century? Light, quick, capable of a complete structural discentigration if pushed.

Spademan Bindings
Scott Boots

[GoldMember]

And...Bobby Burns "The Ski". I was more a K2 winter heat & Century honeycomb cores guy at the time. Remember Century? Light, quick, capable of a complete structural discentigration if pushed.

Oh, yeah.... Century 3's, baby! Noodles but I loved them for the bumps. Total suckage with real speed.

[old goat]

Hang around a resort on a midweek groomer day and you'll always see a few old guys skiing K2 Recons--"extinct" skis that refuse to die.

[BC.]

Hang around a resort on a midweek groomer day and you'll always see a few old guys skiing K2 Recons--"extinct" skis that refuse to die.

I had me some Recons back in the day.....buddy had the Outlaws...lol...then I think I went to Coombas next.....can’t remember the years..early 2000’s?

[schindlerpiste]

Olin Mark IV
Spaulding Sideral
Dynamic vr17
Hexcel Hexcellerators
Blizzard Titan Pro
Volkl zebra and Sanouks
Stockli Stormrider SS and DP

Lange L10
Hansen Exhibitionist
Caber boots

Demetre sweaters
CB Sport soft goods
Gerry down vests

[volklpowdermaniac]

made in Germany katana
916/sth 1.0

[singlecross]

Caber ski boots were bought out by Rossignol and became their in house brand in the late 80's. I raced in Caber Azzuro's in the mid 80's which became the Rossi R900's?

[schindlerpiste]

Atomic 10:EX and R:11
Volkl Supersport ***** flat

[PNWbrit]

Gotama?

Seems to be very reliable out here on the BC Coast for North Shore night skiing, Whistler meh days, and interior resort days in between touring.

I am flat base biased though.

Not sure the 100 eight series matches up to the gotama.

My $0.02

Safe skiing out there, some big events out here lately.

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My daily driver skis the past two seasons have been the flat black whale tail Gotamas with kingpins.

[Merlyn]

EHP


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Seconded.

Skied mine a few days ago. Still awesome.

[TAFKALVS]

Still in production: lp105 - pro rider - mpro 105.

Fantastic ski.

[volklpowdermaniac]

Line mothership

[toast2266]

Still in production: lp105 - pro rider - mpro 105.

Fantastic ski.

I just wish it came in a sub 192 length. I'm not a large person, and I'm not getting any younger.

[ski-wpk]

My daily driver skis the past two seasons have been the flat black whale tail Gotamas with kingpins.

I have a pair of these in 185 I think sitting in a closet if anyone wants. 2 maybe 3 mounts. $50 + ship.

[ski-wpk]

Olin Mark IV
Spaulding Sideral
Dynamic vr17
Hexcel Hexcellerators
Blizzard Titan Pro
Volkl zebra and Sanouks
Stockli Stormrider SS and DP

Lange L10
Hansen Exhibitionist
Caber boots

Demetre sweaters
CB Sport soft goods
Gerry down vests

All these went to the landfill this summer:

[Djongo Unchained]

All these went to the landfill this summer:

What a shame; And you didn't pull all of those solly clamps prior, did you?
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I still roll my first gen LPR's, not extinct here in JH. Rode them today for 15 laps. Still love that ski and can rail it today as well as 10 years ago.

[Conundrum]

Look keeps making metal pivots and every year people blow loads over new colors, sorry...colorways, and which would look best on which skis. Solly discontinues metal drivers and people say no one is blowing up the current 16 dins so who really needed them at all. Yeah, I like metal Sollies. Probably don’t need them but they’ve never given me trouble.

On the topic of extinct, when did the word color change to colorway? Right up there with abundance of caution on the stuff that bothers me and maybe shouldn’t scale.

[toast2266]

On the topic of extinct, when did the word color change to colorway? Right up there with abundance of caution on the stuff that bothers me and maybe shouldn’t scale.

Color means color.

Colorway means a combination of colors.

[Conundrum]

Color means color.

Colorway means a combination of colors.

I get it. Five to ten years ago companies introduced lines in new colors. Now companies introduce new colorways often with a picture of solid single color pieces.

https://www.look-bindings.com/look-pivot-15-pit-viper

Three new “colorways”. One being a solid single color and one being raw which would be no color at all in theory.

Because I was looking at helmets tonight.

https://www.smithoptics.com/en_CA/he...AMBSMMIPS.html

Select colorways offered without MIPS® system

But the only helmets without mips only come in a single solid color. If you want a helmet with two colors, you get mips. Copy writers are fancying up their words and it doesn’t even seem like it’s the proper word.

If your retro-grouch company is hiring, let me know where to forward my resume or are we all calling them cv’s these days?

[toast2266]

I get it. Five to ten years ago companies introduced lines in new colors. Now companies introduce new colorways often with a picture of solid single color pieces.

If your retro-grouch company is hiring, let me know where to forward my resume or are we all calling them cv’s these days?

Yeah, the marketing departments definitely like to make it sound fancy when they're selling the exact same thing with a dab of fresh paint on it.

The retro grouch company will do marketing the old fashioned way: by paying younger people to jump off cliffs on skis. And boobs, probably.

[ill-advised strategy]

All these went to the landfill this summer:

Are you shitting me?

Can you go back and get the k2 gs race with deflex plates? I’ll give you money for them.